Man saved from raft identified by church in London

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A MAN found floating on a makeshift raft in Scandinavian waters had been living homeless in London for at least two years, it emerged yesterday.

Eleven days after his mysterious discovery in the Skagerrak between Norway and Denmark, the “raft man”, who has captured the attention of the world’s media, was identified by a London church as George Williams, 46, who received regular help since first attending its soup kitchen two years ago.

He insisted that he had been thrown overboard from a British ship in the middle of the night and floated for “a long time” before he found